Thin Tabs and Laptops to Dominate CES

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Innovation isn't always the name of the game at the Consumer Electronics Show.

The 2012 edition of CES is expected to feature several entries from companies that are not introducing new products, but instead making current ones lighter and thinner.

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The term ultrabook will be beat into the heads of laptop users next week, as several PC-makers will try to compete with Apple's popular MacBook Air laptop.

The emphasis on creating thinner, sleeker-looking laptops is coming from Intel, who has designed chips to work on new computers from Lenovo, Acer, Asus and Toshiba.